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A Dream with Demons
Publisher's catalog copy:
In A Dream with Demons, Edward Falco invents a world where bruised adults attempt, over and over, to rewrite the violent scripts of their childhood. Preston Morris is an accomplished lawyer and novelist who writes painful, provocative stories to shore up fragments of his own desperate life. One of Preston's works, which forms the core of A Dream with Demons, tells of a sadly streetwise adolescent named Missy who struggles to come of age during the short space of a weekend when her mother finally leaves her tortured, brilliant lover, the artist Val Rivson.
Preston's genius -- or is it Falco's? -- is the accuracy with which he portrays the sublime compulsions of several tortured yet resilient people. Holding everything together is the unique hypertext structure of A Dream with Demons, which dramatizes a theme evident throughout: how the past can compel the present, through the fragmentary, unreliable, but ultimately persistent medium of memory.
(Source: Eastgate catalog copy)
Jill Walker Rettberg - 14.01.2011 - 12:08
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GRAMMATRON
Inspired by Derrida's Of Grammatology, Mark Amerika experiments in GRAMMATRON with narrative form in a networked environment. Amerika retells the Jewish Golem myth by adapting it into the culture of programmable media and remixing several genres of text into the story's hybridized style, including metafiction, hypertext, cyberpunk, and conceptual works affiliated with the Art+Language group.
Narrated from various authorial perspectives, the story introduces readers to Abe Golam, a pioneering Net artist who creates Grammatron, a writing machine. Endowed not with the Word (as in the original myth) but with forbidden data—a specially coded Nanoscript—the creature becomes a digital being that "contains all of the combinatory potential of all the writings." The Grammatron is the personification of the Golem, which is also a personification of Amerika the artist. While the Golem and its environment have been depicted in any number of literary adaptations and works, in GRAMMATRON, Mark Amerika creates a seemingly infinite, recombinant (text-)space in the electrosphere.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 16.02.2011 - 15:42
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my body — a Wunderkammer
The author and artist Shelley Jackson has produced a corpus of work in print and electronic media that takes as its central focus the relationship between human identity and the body's constituent organs, fluids, connective tissues, and other parts. While her well-known Storyspace hypertext Patchwork Girl revisited the Frankenstein story from the viewpoint of a female monster, my body uses the HTML hypertext form to revitalize the memoir genre. As the reader selects elegantly drawn woodcut images of parts of the author's body, meditations and anecdotes associated with each body part are revealed.
(Source: Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One)
Patricia Tomaszek - 24.02.2011 - 17:39
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Turning Away
Taglined "a revolving haiku", this poem displays a three line haiku on the screen. After a few moments, a line is replaced by a new line, until the whole haiku slowly has shifted to a completely new poem.
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Jill Walker Rettberg - 24.03.2011 - 22:10
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We Descend : Archives Pertaining to Edgerus Scriptor, Volume One
A story of our far future, unearthed by a Scholar to whom it is the distant past. But for that far-off scholar, as for every reader, the paths followed and the connections forged among the diaries, letters, confessions, and artifacts lead only to further questions. Some documents speak to us of Egderus, a young boy at the isolated Mountain House. What -- or who -- lives in the rocky hills around him? What secrets bind his superiors in fear and silence? What is it that creeps out, undetected, to drive a man mad, or to tear him limb from limb? Why must Egderus later leave the Mountain House as amanuensis to the Good Doctor, interrogator and torturer? What intrigue surrounds one prisoner, the Historian, that makes the Good Doctor so relentless in his attack? Why, ultimately, is this Historian the one victim that Egderus attempts to rescue? Years later, as an old man at the Mountain House, Egderus uncovers only more mysteries. What did the Historian learn that drove him to his death? Does something live, still, in the rocks around him? And how shall Egderus pursue this disturbing legacy that could shake the foundations of his darkening world?
Scott Rettberg - 25.03.2011 - 23:43
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Anipoems
Anipoems is a series of kinetic poetry making use of animated gifs.
Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 15:05
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Re:Positioning Fear
"Re:Positioning Fear" was the third relational architecture project. A large scale installation on the Landeszeughaus military arsenal with a "teleabsence" interface of projected shadows of passers-by. Using tracking systems, the shadows were automatically focused and generated sounds. A real-time IRC discussion about the transformation of the concept of "fear" was projected inside the shadows; the chat involved 30 artists and theorists from 17 countries and the proceedings can be seen at the project web site. Source: Author's website.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 05.07.2011 - 14:57
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Virtual Reality Exhibit at the Singapore Museum
A hypertext poem. The reader navigates through different stanzas by selecting icons.
Author's note:
The sheer profusion of a city like Singapore calls reality into question. Exhilarating mix of cultures, plants and animals, surreal insects and multi-colored carp, it plays on the nagging fear that this world is not quite our home. Such anxiety is pitched to the surface by the pressure of the ordinary loneliness of a stranger in a strange land .
We can't escape the making of virtuality, any more than we can avoid being connected to the human city (genet) and at the same time individuated from it (ramet). Everything "suffering description," which is the world, the "possible to be believed," is real. And in this fecund city of lives within a strict order, we become acutely aware that the assertion "In the city of Singapore eyes saw" is not so simple.
(Source: The New River 3)
Scott Rettberg - 12.10.2011 - 11:29
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Net poetry
Rohtvee’s hypertextual Net-poetry was written mostly in English but containing Estonian texts too. Her poems include phrases, titles, and opinions from published articles on Estonian culture also providing links to relevant texts and/or homepages available in the net. Thus, her poems function as a subjective summary of what happens in the Estonian culture of the 1990s. Net-poetry forms a trilogy with her altavista words and chatpoetry (also from 1997).
Giovanna Di Rosario - 21.10.2011 - 15:33
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chatpoetry
chatpoetry (third poem of a triology along with Net poetry and altavista words) is based on the specific way of communication as it occurs in the chatroom. The project rises the questions of internet security, privacy and artistic ethics.
Giovanna Di Rosario - 21.10.2011 - 15:57
